All Chapters of The Actor's Contract: Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

“How —” My voice catches, startled.“Do I know?” He finishes for me, shrugging, his smirk ghostlike in the dim dashboard glow. “You should learn to lie better. First, you needed to take something to the hospital. Then you needed to fetch something.”Why are they all so damn perceptive? My stomach kn

“Aria, I’m … ” He swings his arm vaguely, gesturing at the girls. “We … are here to apologize.”I glance at Amanda and Chloe, whose faces could curdle milk. Forgive me if I’m not buying this redemption tour.“I’m sorry I was such a jerk,” Brian says, his voice wobbling. “I never wanted anyone to get

Date = 11 June Four more excruciating long daysPlace = San Francisco (Inferno parking lot)POV - AriaI jerk — Jackson’s behind me. I never even heard him coming. He moves like a panther, silent and deadly.They all do.Lee spins around, eyes wide. Even he hadn’t noticed. But when Jackson prowls f

The hairs on my arms lift as if static crackles through the air. I feel faint, lightheaded, as though oxygen has abandoned me.“Say, for instance,” he drawls, eyes still locked on Jackson, “this golden-eyed pretty face of yours gets sexed-in by rolling the dice, and you’re forced to watch …”I don’t

Preferably me.Jackson seems slightly distracted by Lee’s fall. Worried. For a second, he glares at his roommate with a sorrow-filled face. Just for a moment. Then he blinks and focuses on me.“You need to hurt,” he says. Knowing. Understanding exactly what I want. And he will give it to me.He squa